Double-faced woven pile fabric



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(Specimens.)

J. GOLEY. DOUBLE FAGEDWOVEN PILE FABRIC.

No. 483,977. Patented Oct. 4, 1892.

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J. COLBY. lDOUBLE FAGED WOVEN PILE PABRIG.

No. 483,977. Patented Oct. 4, 1,892;

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JOSEPH COLEY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

DOUBLE-FACED WOVEN PILE FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,977, dated October4, 1892.

Application filed February 15,1892. Serial No. 421,601. (Specimens.)

.To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH OOLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDouble-Faced Woven Pile Fabrics; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which, inconnection with the drawings making a part of this specilication, willenable others skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to makeand use the same.

My invention relates to woven pile fabrics, and more particularly to abody Brussels carpet or other pile fabric; and the object of myinvention is to produce a reversible or doublefaced body Brussels carpetor other pile fabric having the same pattern on both sides, but adifferent coloring on each side.

My invention consists in certain novel features of construction of myimproved doublefaced or reversible body Brussels carpet or other pilefabric, as will be hereinafter fully described, and the nature thereofindicated by the claims.

In manufacturing my double-faced body Brussels carpet or other pilefabric the ordinary loom for weaving body Brussels carpets may be usedby altering slightly the construction thereof.

In the manufacture of my improved doublefaced body Brussels carpet orother pile fabric which is woven with wires I must employ an even numberof worsted-warp framestwo, four, or six frames-as when one worsted warpis raised the corresponding worsted warp must be lowered, for theworsted pile warps which form the pattern or pile surface in the carpetappear not only on one side of the fabric to form the pattern or pilesurface thereon, but also appear on the other side of the fabric to formthe same pattern or pile surface thereon, thus producing a doublefacedbody Brussels carpet or other pile fabric having the same pattern onboth sides, buta different coloring on each side.

In manufacturing my improved doublefaced woven pile fabric, instead ofemploying a single wire, as is customary, over which the worsted pilewarp is looped on the upper surface of the fabric, two wires are used,one of which passes above the binder or cotton warps to form loops onthe upper surface of the fabric and the other of which passes be low thebinder-warps to formv the loops on the under surface of the fabric. Twoshuttles are also employed for the filling-shots, one of which travelson the lay and the other on the warps, and the shuttles are shotsimultaneously from opposite sides of the loom, so as to pass each otherin the shed. By using two shuttles I can have two different-coloredwefts or filling-threads, so that in case it isl desired to have a lightface on one side of the fabric a light weft may be used and a dark weftmay .be used for the dark face on the other side of the fabric.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a face or plan view, onan enlarged scale, of a detached portion of my reversible body Brusselscarpet. Fig. 2 is an edge view looking in the direction of arrow d, Fig.1, and representing, also, a sectional View in the direction of thelength of the warp. Figs.

3, t, 5, and 6 are detail views illustrating the position of each of thefour worsted pile warps, forming the pattern shown in Figs. l and 2.Fig. 7 is a modified construction of the fabric shown in Fig. 2, theloops in the upper surface being cut to form a cut pile surface; and Fig8 is another modification of the fabric shown in Fig. 2, the loops onboth sides of the fabric being cut to forma cut pile surface 0n bothsides of the fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, l, 2, 3, and 4 are the worsted warps,which form the pattern or pile surface on each side of the fabric. 5 and6 are the cotton or binding warps, and 8 and 9 the two filling-wefts. Itwill be seen that the binding-warps 5 and 6 interchange, passingentirely through the floating worsted warps and binding the floatingworsted warps between the iilling-wefts. (See Fig. 2.) The twolling-wefts 8 and 9 are put into the fabric for each alternate beat ofthe lay, the upper one 9 of the filling-wefts extending over the uppersurface of the body of the fabric and the other filling-weft 8 extendingon the under surface of the body of the fabric, as shown in Fig. 2. Theworsted warps 1,2, 3, and 4 are arranged in pairs and so connected andoperated by the ICO jacquard mechanism that when one worsted warp of apair is selected or called by the vjacquard and raised and lowered toform the loop or pile surface in the upper side of the fabric the otherworsted warp of the pair of worst-ed warps is simultaneously lowered andraised to form the loop or pile surface in the under side of the fabric.When neither one of a pair of worsted warps is selected or called by thejacquard, both of the worsted warps of the pair are carried straight inthe body of the fabric between the tilling-wefts.

I have represented in the drawings a detached portion of afour-framecarpet in which four colored worsted warps Vare used to form the patternor pile surface on each side of the fabric. No stuffer-warp is used inthis instance.

Referring to detail views Figs. 3 and 4, 5 and 6,v the course of eachworsted warp in the fabric shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is illustrated.Referring to Figs. 3 and 4, it will be observed that when the worstedwarp 1 is called p by the jacquard and raised to form the loop lover thewire in the upper surface of the fabric and bring that colorin the uppersurface of the fabric the worsted warp 2 is simultaneously lowered andappears on a coincident portion of the lower surface of the fabric toform the loop 2 therein and bring that color into the lower surface ofthe fabric. It

will thusbe seen that the worsted warps when selected appear oncoincident portions of both sides of the fabric to form the loops orpile surface therein. The operation of the cumber-board now brings allthe worsted warps together in the body of the fabric and the shuttlesare thrown simultaneously one above and one below the body of thefabric. The

peated.

IVhen the worsted warp 1 is not called by the jacquard, but is carriedstraight in the fabric, as shown at 1, between the filling- Wefts, theworsted warp 2 will also be carried straight in the fabric between thefilling wefts, as shown at 2".

Vhen the worsted warp 2 is called by the jacquard and is raised to formaloop 2 over the wire in the upper surface of the fabric, the worstedwarp 1 is simultaneously lowered to form a corresponding loop 1 underthe wire in the lower surface of the fabric, and the operation abovegiven is repeated, so that whenever one of a pair of worsted warps iscalled by the jacquard to appear in the pattern to form the loop or pilesurface in the upper surface of the fabric the other of the pair ofworsted warps simultaneously forms the loop or pile surface in the lowersurface of the fabric and appears in the pattern on that surface.

Referring to Figs. 5 and @,thc worsted warp 3 is first carried straightin the fabric between the lling wefts, as shown at 3', and the worstedwarp 4 is also carried straight in the fabric between the illing-wefts,as shown at 4'; but when the worsted warps 1 and 2 are carried straightin the fabric, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 at 1 and 2, the worsted warp 3is called by the jacquard mechanism to form the loop 3" in the uppersurface of the fabric, and simultaneously the worsted warp 4 forms theloop 4 in the lower` surface of the fabric. The worsted warps 3 and 4are carried straight in the fabric between the illing-wefts, as shown at3 and 4', when the :worst-ed warps 1 and 2 are called by thejacquard, asshown in Figs. 3 and 4.

It will thus be seen that in my double-faced body Brussels carpet orother pile fabric the same pattern is woven on each side of the fabricand the same colors appear in the pattern on each side of the fabric,but in a different position in the pattern, so that the coloring isdifferent on each side of the fabric.

If one set of wires used in weaving the carpet is provided with kniveson their ends, then the cut pile surface 10 will be formed on Aone sideof the finished carpet, as shown in Fig. 7, instead of the loopedsurface 11. If

vboth sets of wires are provided with knives on their ends, then the cutpile surface 10 `will be formed on each side of the carpet, as

shown in Fig. 8. l

I have only described and shown in this `application the construction orweave of my double-faced or reversible body Brussels carpet or otherpile fabric, and I have not described the construction of the loom formakling the fabric, as the saine forms the subjectmatter of anotherapplication for a patent,

I Serial No. 441,116, filed July 25, 1892. heddles are now shifted andthe operation re i I have described my new double faced woven pilefabric as a carpet; but it may also be used as a rug or for coveringfurniture, (itc.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A double-faced pile fabric woven from an even number of frames ofworsted warps and having the same pattern on both sides, but each sidehaving a different coloring, and consisting of two binding-warps passingentirely through the floating worsted warps from top to bottom and frombottom to top, and two sets of lling-wefts and'worsted warps whenselected appearing on coincident portions of both sides of the fabric toform the loops or pile surface on each side of the fabric and whenunselected carried in the body of the fabric between the iilling-wefts,substantially Vitnesses:

KATIE FARRELL, JOHN C. DEWEY.

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